Breaks between Levitt Creek and Little Spring Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Uinta County, Wyoming (41.3° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 96.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Black's Fork Member (Bridger Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Smithsonian, George B. Pearce in 1930; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Fossil snakes of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper (9)1-96 [J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180198: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 11.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata -
Boavus occidentalis Marsh 1871 snake
USNM 12980. complete left ramus with teeth, quadrate, maxilla fragment, 70+ vertebrae with ribs
 Squamata - Anguidae
"Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris
"Paraglyptosaurus princeps" = Glyptosaurus sylvestris Marsh 1871 squamates
USNM 12844, anterior frontal fragment